Welcome to LandMarks2017/Repères2017LandMarks2017/ Repères2017 invites people to creatively explore and deepen their connection to the land through a series of contemporary art projects in and around Canada’s National Parks and Historic Sites from June 10-25, 2017. LandMarks2017/Repères2017 inspires dialogue about people, places and perspectives that have shaped our past and are vital to our futures. https://landmarks2017.ca/

The LandMarks2017/Repères2017 students are exhibiting their work at the Sheridan AA Wing Gallery from May 24 until June 2. The opening reception will be held on May 23 from 4-6 pm.

LandMarks2017/Repères2017 is part of a network of collaborative Canadian universities and contemporary art projects. Students participating in the course create individual works and collaborative projects which will be included a national exhibition from June 10 to June 25, 2017 in National Parks and Historical Sites across Canada.I hope you will be able to join us.

"Stone Walks on the Bruce Trail was a successful WalkingLab event that convened on the Chedoke to Iroquoia Heights loop trail, a 9-km section of the Radial Trail and Bruce Trails on April 1st, 2017. The event brought together more than 70 walkers to think-with the geologic force of this place. The 4-hour walk was punctured by ‘pop up’ lectures by geologists, activists, and indigenous scholars and activated by a local arts collective TH&B, who critically intervened with typical ways that walkers use these trails."

The Blue Trees in Mississauga are a part of a public art installation by Konstantin Dimopoulous who works with the local public to paint the trees an ultramarine electric blue that transforms downtown Mississauga into a mystical landscape. His work is a result of a communal effort of local people that helped the artist paints the trees. The participatory action brings people together to raise awareness of the importance of taking care of the trees. The installation uses water based environmentally safe pigment that will fade away with the rain. The temporality of the colour is a metaphor for the impermanence of life, the life that is dependent on trees as the lungs of the world. The blue colour changes the way individuals respond to nature by bringing urban trees into visible importance.

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This is an active blog for FAS450Y/ LandMarks 2017, a special topics course currently running in the Art and Art History program in the joint program between Sheridan College and the University of Toronto at Mississauga.